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1 For breakfast I had coffee and a due proportion of quartern loaf .
2 And I find that a quartern loaf of wheaten bread, weighing 4lb.
3 The average price of the quartern loaf had been ten-pence three-farthings through the year.
4 Also left there, with a quartern loaf .
5 Wheat was at a hundred and ten shillings a quarter, and the quartern loaf at one and ninepence.
6 A quartern loaf weighed four pounds.
7 Bread had sold at a moderate rate all the year; the average price being eightpence halfpenny the quartern loaf .
8 Yet, even so, the price of the quartern loaf rose to more than fifteenpence, and we were brought to the verge of civil war.
9 On this the sergeant ordered in breakfast for us, in the shape of a half- quartern loaf and two ounces of butter for every four recruits.
10 You are probably not aware that at bakers' shops in the poor quarters the price of the half- quartern loaf varies sometimes from week to week.
11 Bottomley lays S. Coxall sixpennyworth that the price of a quartern loaf will be as low as sevenpence the best sort in two months-24thOct.
12 The bread and cheese amounts to 540 quartern loaves and 470 pounds of cheese.
13 We drank each of us a bottle of porter, and finished our half- quartern loaves with wonderful alacrity, Bill keeping us gladsome company.
14 Byron it was who, writing as though the trees sprouted quartern loaves ready baked, said of it (The Island 2 11):
15 "It was piteous to see them," she said; "only July, and the quartern loaf nearly three shillings, and meal four shillings a peck."
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